• Victims of terrorism and their families need aid tailored to their individual situations. These include short term loans for parents and others who must abandon their jobs to care for the injured, long-term support services such as rehabilitation, post traumatic stress counseling and other critical programs to help Israelis cope with this new reality.

• People living in geographically vulnerable areas in Israel need increased: protection including bullet-proof glass in homes, schools and vehicles; supervision and after school enrichment activities for children, special alarm systems; and emergency response programs.

• As a result of the economic turmoil that has engulfed Israel since the violence began more than 18 months ago, unemployment is at an all-time high. One out of 10 Israelis is out of work; tourism, a mainstay of the economy, is virtually non-existent. Shops are empty and a paralysis plagues the nation as people are afraid to leave their home for fear of suicide bombers. The economy is at a near halt.

• Israel's Social Service infrastructure, which helps the most vulnerable populations, is overburdened and underfunded. Cutbacks in support have affected nearly every ministry, except defense, and those who depend on daily services such as meals, transportation and medical assistance are at risk.

• New Olim, (immigrants) because they depend upon public transportation and other government assistance, are especially at risk and rank highest among those injured in terrorist attacks. Russian and Ethiopian immigrants also need emergency response materials in their native languages, phone cards to call families living abroad and paid visits with family members for those injured in attacks.

• Israel is also still expecting a huge influx of Jews from Argentina as a result of the economic downfall of that country. This Israel Emergency Campaign will help the Argentine Jewish community seeking to make aliyah to Israel at this time. The fund will help to resettle the Jews who immigrate.

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